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Hoffman, Emily Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Active, dialogic participation is a necessary component of high quality teacher professional learning (Dunst, Bruder, & Hamby, 2015). However, logistical problems arise when implementing cooperative learning opportunities for early childhood educators, as preschool teachers are habitually separated from peers both institutionally and…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Online Courses, Preschool Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Lofton, Rodney Stephen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the roles and related leadership competencies traditional superintendents and nontraditional superintendents identified as significant in their work as superintendents. Moreover, this study explored key experiences from traditional superintendents and nontraditional superintendents and described how each…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Enrollment, Superintendents, Leadership
Hsieh, Hsiu-Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The proliferation of information and communication technologies and the prevalence of online social networks have facilitated the opportunities for informal learning of foreign languages. However, little educational research has been conducted on how individuals utilize those social networks to take part in self-initiated language learning without…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Social Networks
Lee, Yen-Ling – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Much research in educational technology has focused mainly on how the technology supports student learning. Research on what teachers need to know in order to appropriately incorporate technology into their teaching has been limited because of the lack of theoretical grounding for understanding teachers' cognitive process of technology integration…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Teaching Methods, Educational Research
Molle, Daniella – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The lack of empirical scholarship on professional development initiatives for teachers of English language learners (ELLs) in US schools has been repeatedly documented in educational research. The present dissertation project examines a professional development course specifically designed for K-12 teachers of ELLs. The course aims to foster the…
Descriptors: Investigations, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Systems Approach
Burmester, Kristen O'Rourke – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Classrooms are a primary site of evidence about learning. Yet classroom proceedings often occur behind closed doors and hence evidence of student learning is observable only to the classroom teacher. The informal and undocumented nature of this information means that it is rarely included in statistical models or quantifiable analyses. This…
Descriptors: Evidence, Student Evaluation, Educational Research, Validity
Wang, Jing – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The ultimate goal of physics education research (PER) is to develop a theoretical framework to understand and improve the learning process. In this journey of discovery, assessment serves as our headlamp and alpenstock. It sometimes detects signals in student mental structures, and sometimes presents the difference between expert understanding and…
Descriptors: Test Items, Mathematical Models, Educational Testing, Physics
Lee, Hyeon Woo – ProQuest LLC, 2008
Instructional designers need to understand the internal processes of learning, identify learners' cognitive difficulties with those processes, and create strategies to help learners overcome those difficulties. Generative learning theory, one conception of human learning about cognitive functioning and process, emphasizes that meaningful learning…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Feedback (Response), Learning Theories, Control Groups